Kipling worked at Lahore on the Civil and Military Gazette from 1882 and set Kim partly there, opening it on the Zamzama gun outside the museum his father ran.
The administrative literature is larger and more useful: Cunningham's history, the settlement reports, the gazetteers, the memoirs of the Lawrence brothers and of the men who ran the districts.
Later English writing about Punjab is dominated by 1947 and by 1984, and by a small number of books that get cited endlessly.
The Punjabi writing in English by Punjabis, Khushwant Singh above all, is a separate and much smaller body.
What almost nobody has written in English is a serious account of ordinary Punjabi life, rural or urban, in the present tense, that is not organised around a crisis.
That gap is why the six subjects listed elsewhere on this site are what the world knows about Punjab, and it is a gap in a language a great many Punjabis now write in fluently.
Kipling, whose father ran the Lahore museum, is the largest presence, and Kim is set on the Grand Trunk Road and in a Lahore he knew.
The administrators wrote as well: settlement reports, gazetteers and memoirs, and a great deal of the ethnography that later hardened into fact came out of those books.
Almost none of it was written by Punjabis. The province was described at length by the people governing it, and that description is what later scholarship inherited.